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Posting Larger Images

Mark Levesque has an excellent tutorial on how to post larger images. Since there have been numerous requests on how to do this, I thought we should finally make a sticky so we don't have to hunt all over the darn place to find the link. Thank you Mark!

There are a couple of caveats you should know about doing this:

1. PPA does have a "bot" service that sniffs out your images if someone else decides to copy your image and use it for their own websites. However, this only works for images that are posted directly on this forum in the conventional, albeit, smaller image, way.

2. I would recommend, very highly, that you grab the images on your own web domain server (if you have one). Photobucket, et al, have copyright releases which makes you vulnerable to the rights of your own images.

So here it is:

OurPPA has some pretty severe restrictions on image sizes, particularly when one considers it is a site that is ABOUT images. Yet people want others to see and evaluate their images so they can incorporate the feedback into improving their work. But if the images are too small, which the largest size allowed is, then you are guessing at best. So how do we solve this conundrum? We host the files elsewhere and link to them here.

The best way to do this is to use your site to host the images, and simply link to them so the images are embedded here using {img} {/img} tags. (Note that you will have to replace the curly braces with square brackets for all of the tags referred to in this tutorial.)

Here's what you need from your web host service: a username and password for your site. Let's say your site is called www.mysite.com, and your username is joeschmo and your password is photos123. You will open your favorite ftp client, and use mysite.com as the host, joeschmo as the username, and photos123 as the password. Click the button to connect, and it should log you in. If you are like most people, your service provider will have set things up so you are in the right place when you log in. If your service provider is not so on the ball, you may have to navigate to the public_html directory. If, when you login to the server, you see "index.htm" or something similar to that, you are in the right place already.

The next thing to do is create a new directory in which to place the many images which you are going to be hosting. Maybe call it "images" or "photos" or "pix". Doesn't really matter. But now you want to set your remote browser to point to that directory (double clicking on the new directory usually works). Now you will see there is nothing in that directory. No problem. Find an image you wish to host on your local browser. Transfer it to the new directory on the host machine by dragging and dropping.

(You need to use square brackets in the above link, which gives you this:

Last edited by Michael_Gan; 03-25-2010 at 11:57 PM.

Michael Gan,M.Photog.Cr. CPP,Meritage House of Photography

If your business depends on you, you don't own a business-you have a job. And it's the worst job in the world because you're working for a lunatic... You can't close it when you want to, because if it's closed you don't get paid. You can't leave it when you want to, because if you leave there's nobody there to do the work. You can't sell it when you want to, because who wants to buy a job?—Michael Gerber

Thanks Michael!
And of course Mark
For those who do not have your own web domain sever there are alternatives to photobucket/flickr/picasa/etc. MyOtherDrive.com for example has a very user-friendly TOS regarding IP rights.

Your Intellectual Property Rights. ByteRocket does not claim any ownership in any of the content, including any text, data, information, images, photographs, music, sound, video, or other material, that you upload, transmit or store in your MyOtherDrive account. We will not use any of your content for any purpose except to provide you with the Service.

The limitation here is that you can only store 2Gb of info for free. It's pay to play to load more than that but using web size files of say 800 pixels wide at a resolution of 96 you should be able to store at least 500 images to post for critic at no charge. Just thought I'd throw that out there for anyone without a web domain server. If you have any trouble with the service remember "You get what you pay for"

BTW this service does not provide IMG tagged urls, you need to wrap the URL with IMG tags as Mark describes to post straight to the boards

And with that, this thread is closed for info purposes only. Thanks for the info David!

Michael Gan,M.Photog.Cr. CPP,Meritage House of Photography

If your business depends on you, you don't own a business-you have a job. And it's the worst job in the world because you're working for a lunatic... You can't close it when you want to, because if it's closed you don't get paid. You can't leave it when you want to, because if you leave there's nobody there to do the work. You can't sell it when you want to, because who wants to buy a job?—Michael Gerber